18-year-old arrested in armed robbery at convenience store

Updated 10:00 pm, Sunday, January 24, 2010

Kitsap County deputies on Sunday afternoon arrested an 18-year-old South Kitsap man in connection with the armed robbery of a convenience store.

According to spokesman Deputy Scott Wilson, a masked man armed with a gun entered the Gull service station at the corner of Sidney and Shannon Roads in South Kitsap at 4 p.m. and demanded money.

The suspect left a few minutes later with an undisclosed amount of cash, but when deputies arrived at 4:17, the clerk said she thought she recognized the bandit and the small red car in which he escaped.

She directed the investigators to an address near Helena Lake, where they found a car resembling the suspect's vehicle.